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'The deeply embedded view is that Christ is returning soon, so why should we care about the environment?'

10 June 2009

“We trapped them. We breached their dam. Nothing works.”

Beavers in the US have thrived under conservation efforts and it is now proving difficult to control them, according to engineer David Pavlik in Lexington, Massachusetts, where dams have sent water flooding into sewers (The New York Times, 8 June)

“The deeply embedded view is that Christ is returning soon, so why should we care about the environment?”

Evangelical Christian Craig Sorley, a self-proclaimed “environmental missionary” trying to encourage green practices in Kenya, laments the attitude of his church colleagues back in the US (The Observer, London, 7 June)